So what have I been doing for the past day?

Well, yesterday it poured rain in the morning, so I washed the curtains. As I’ve made (almost) all the curtains in the house, I know they’re safe to be washed, so other than the ironing (the price I pay for using 100% cotton) it was relatively painless.

The, the weather cleared and Michael and I mulched some of the flower beds. We went through four bags of mulch and barely touched the beds at the bottom of the hill.

Then I rushed inside to make pizza, because at around 8:30, my grandmother had a surprise visit from my aunt and uncle.

That was the best part of the day. Since it was a surprise, we didn’t hold dinner, but the pizza was still warm when they got here, and I made oreos for dessert, and then we talked and played dominoes until midnight.

Pretty awesome day.

And no flower pr0n, because it’s raining again. Which is why I ended up falling asleep on the sofa instead of doing anything today.

I’ve got a big project at work, and need to thoroughly clean the house when I get home.

Talk amongst yourselves.

Meanwhile, this is the wallpaper on one of my monitors at work. (It displaced Batman’s Tumbler.)

Came home to discover that my new mixer had arrived!

It’s so shiny and pretty!

New mixer next to the old mixer. Poor old mixer.

Look at the beautiful color!

The mixer settled into it’s new space.

Now I feel like I should make cookies or something.

Here’s the first flower pr0n for May.

Shocking as it seems, I already have a day lily blooming.

Got some gardening in this morning, including giving the front and side areas a good watering.

Which is why it’s pouring down rain right now.

Regardless, I got some more flower pr0n. I can’t seem to get a good picture of the white bleeding heart, and several other pictures turned out spectacularly crappy, but I got a couple of nice pictures. I particularly like the purple gem rhododendron, which actually looks rather crappy as a whole plant right now, but the flowers are beautiful–a really gorgeous shade of purple that would be overwhelming anywhere but on a plant.

I’m still stunned by how good everything looks right now, and how many plants are budding or getting ready to flower. It looks like I’m going to have day lilies blooming in early May, which is almost unbelievable. But I’ll enjoy them anyway!

Came home today to find the remains of a plant orgy all over the front yard. There’s been pollen all over the car every morning for the past week.

But you know what? These are things I can most definitely live with.

Also, two new flower pr0n pictures. The camera ate the bleeding heart pictures, and it was getting to dark to get a good picture of anything else, but you can see how the front garden is progressing.

And that’s very well. I’ve already got buds on the columbine and one of the daylilies. The lilac is going to start blooming any time now, the bluebell I planted last fall is blooming, and the lily of the valley is budding. (I adore the flowers on the lily of the valley. They’re so white and delicate they look like porcelain to me.)

I just didn’t have anything much to say, other than gratuitously insulting Nathan.

Blue & Gold game is tomorrow (if you click on the link, please notice that all profits benefit the Children’s Hospital), so we did the shopping tonight, because this side of town gets a little messy when there is football–of any sort–over the hill.

The good part, is that I may be able to get a little gardening in before it rains. (Insert long discussion about compost here.)

New flower pr0n, including my spring barren front garden, and a truly frightening mutant daffodil. (I kid you not, these daffodils frighten me.)

Looks like I’ve made it through today without breaking anyt

Things I considered doing with our tax rebate check:

1) Get the house resided
2) Replace the sofa
3) Get Michael a new computer
4) Upgrade our cell phones

Things I was not planning on doing with our tax rebate check:
Repair or replace the wood stove.

Yes ladies and gentlemen, I–your gracious host–managed to break the wood stove this morning. It absolutely cannot be used until it is repaired or replaced, and considering the shape it’s in, replace makes a lot more sense than repair.

What did I do? It had four heavy glass panels on the front lining the two doors that open to allow you to put in wood. It was a pretty stupid set-up, actually, but as the wood stove only cost us $50, we weren’t complaining. As you may have guessed, I shattered one of those panels this morning.

Bah humbug.

Is this:

Daisy (not her real name) plopped down and stretched out.

“Really,” she said, “it’s just a job. I got tired of givin’ it away for free, y’know? They’re always buzzing in and out, and it’s always take, take take. Well I’ve had it with all that bullshit. I decided that this time I’d get something back. I’ve already got a bit stashed away as you can see, so I figure I’m gonna spend the entire summer relaxing. Eat, drink and be merry and all that.”

“No, I’m not worried about anything. My mum’s long gone–don’t even know where she is anymore, so who cares? Yeah, I’ll probably end up with kids, but isn’t that what all the girls want? Really? They may protest, but you see ’em standing there, so proud, with their offspring crowded around them, but you know they’re going to come to no better end than than their mother–and will she be looking on as proudly then?”

“Hey, it’s a short brutal life–we’re living on the edge and have to take what we can get. I have no apologies for my life. You don’t like it, then just turn your eyes when you walk on by.”

Based upon this from S. (Go ahead, it’s safe. I promise.)

S made some crocus pr0n for me!

I just KNEW flowers were all flaunting their naughty bits for something other than the birds and the bees!

So I’ve been vindicated!

Not only are flowers pretty and pleasant smelling, but they may also boost your mood!

So I have been justified in buying flowers all winter long! And in all the time and money I spend for my garden! Yippee!

Now if only my flowers were ready to bloom…

To celebrate spring (since it’s not actually, you know, springlike here in WV) I made a new header image for the blog.

Now since I simply added this new image to the random rotation, it may be awhile before you see it. But when you see the purple crocus header? That’s the one I made for today. It would have a much faster experience, except that I decided to use Photoshop to do the image, so I could learn more about the program, it spent half an hour figuring out how to replicate a filter I use all the time in Corel PhotoPaint (I believe there has to be an easier way. But at least I got what I wanted.)

And I think it’s time I added more new header images here, as well as new splash images for my main page.